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/ 28 January 2005
Lleyton Hewitt, who seems to feed off controversy and adversity, endured 31 aces to beat second-seeded Andy Roddick 3-6, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (4), 6-1 on Friday and advance to the Australian Open final. Third-ranked Hewitt, the ”Aussie battler”, was at his aggressive, fist-pumping best against Roddick.
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/ 28 January 2005
Former provincial rugby player and soap-opera actor Deon Coetzee was fined R10 000 or three years in jail on Friday for drunken driving. He appeared in the Bellville Magistrate’s Court before magistrate Clive Linden, who suspended half the fine for five years, leaving Coetzee (43) to pay a fine of R5 000, which he did.
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/ 28 January 2005
Nearly half the population of Zimbabwe is facing hunger and needs food assistance as the country’s food emergency deepens, a famine early-warning group reported on Friday. The report sharply contradicts government assertions that the country has harvested more food — mainly of the corn staple — than it needs to feed the nation.
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/ 28 January 2005
Hundreds of Kenyans fled their homes and farms in the western district of Trans Nzoia on Friday, one day after Pokot herdsmen attacked a farm owned by a Luhya tribesman in a simmering two-month-old tribal dispute over scarce pasture and water. Police and army reinforcements arrived in the area on Friday to prevent further attacks.
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/ 28 January 2005
Moscow is to build a giant Disneyland-style theme park, which, at 300ha will be three times as big as Mickey Mouse’s home in Florida, artist and project leader Zurab Tsereteli said in the Russian capital on Friday. The Moscow Wonder Park will take between five and seven years to complete on a peninsula in the River Moscow in the south of the city.
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/ 28 January 2005
Thousands of expatriate Iraqis began casting ballots on Friday in their country’s first free election for more than half a century, with emotions running high despite the relatively limited numbers taking part. ”I’m doing this for my children … it’s the first step in a thousand-mile journey,” a voter in Dubai said.
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/ 28 January 2005
Swedish twin sisters Gunhild Gallstedt and Siri Ingvarsson celebrate their 100th birthday this weekend surrounded by three generations of family, Sweden’s Dagens Nyheter reported on Friday. The sisters were born in Malmo on January 30 1905 and have lived in the same apartment block in Stockholm for the past 60 years.
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/ 28 January 2005
The naked jogger has met his fate: a year in jail and a 000 (R5 950) fine for running around the neighbourhood without his shorts. Officers said they saw Patterson jogging bare from the waist down and ordered him to stop. When he kept running, officers used a stun gun to pause the pursuit of the pantless perpetrator.
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/ 28 January 2005
A coroner’s inquest has accused the Royal Swaziland Police Force of torture and neglect in a case that has highlighted human rights groups’ concerns over the treatment of suspects in custody. Mandla Ngubeni died in June last year after the police interrogated him over the disappearance of R28 000 from his place of employment.
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/ 28 January 2005
Scorpions spokesperson Sipho Ngwema said in a statement on Friday that the 40 MPs implicated in the Travelgate scandal — 27 current and 13 former MPs — will appear in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on February 18. The names of the MPs — who allegedly used their travel vouchers for illicit purposes — will be disclosed when they appear in court.